US EditionFire Monster over Spain: a Threatening Cloud of Smoke and Ash over the Parched Landscape
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The fire that has caused the death of two people on Tuesday in Lleida belongs to what the firefighters catalogue of sixth generation. “Fires capable of generating convective processes that we cannot predict,” explains Edgar Nebot, forest engineer, agricultural technician and sub-spector of the GRAF (Group of Forest Actions) of the Generalitat Firemen. And that manifests itself in the pyrocumulus, a cloud of gases and water vapor that generate th…
The first major wildfire of the summer has broken out in Catalonia, Spain. And the scenes are shocking, with fiery flames devouring everything in front of them. A so-called pyrocumulus cloud has formed, rising as high as 14 kilometers.
The Rural Agents and the Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating this fact as an accident.
Two Simultaneous Fires in Lleida Force 20,000 People to Be Confined and Burn at Least 5,000 Hectares
The fires arrive in full heat and with a wind storm in the area. Civil Protection has sent an alert to the mobile to the population of the affected municipalities Read
Fire in Lérida, in the community of Catalunha, has triggered a meteorological phenomenon that advanced from the ground to 28 kilometers per hour: it is called pyricum or cloud of fire.
The voracious fire of the sixth generation of the Segarra, in Lleida, that has caused the death of two people and has razed 5,300 hectares, has spread very quickly, with tip speeds of 28 kilometers per hour, due to the state of the fuel, very dry, with abundance of cereal fields and especially by the formation of a pyrocumulus propitiated by the atmospheric instability. Right now it is stabilized, but it exceeded the capacity of extinction of th…
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